Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/camel-pageant-scandal-oman-hump-injectables-b2932979.html

Taken from a post on !microblogmemes@lemmy.world by @negativenull@piefed.world

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toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 68 pts · 168d (10 replies)

Absolutely incredible headline, but kind of a fucked up article. They're hurting camels to win a pagent, what the hell.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 168d

Now remember that child pageants exist.

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 168d (1 reply)

Wikipedia recently picked me this article to rabbithole. These bots are supposed to replace child slaves because the usual adult camel riders just doesn't tickle the same, huh

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 167d

The slave is under the robot

NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 168d (5 replies)

From the same species that brought you rooster fighting, one way tickets to space for dogs, and shark fin soup: Extreme Makeover - Camel Injectables Edition

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 168d (4 replies)

Don't forget "driving lemmings over a cliff to make our documentary seem cooler while also spreading wild misinformation about the behavior of lemmings."

whimsy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 167d (3 replies)

What the heck! Which documentary was this?

kazerniel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 167d (1 reply)

found it on wiki: White Wilderness (1958)

whimsy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 167d

Oh interesting! Thanks for the link!

blarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 167d

The "Family Friendly" Disney documentary from the 1950's.

Town@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 168d

Did you know the biomass of farmed mammals is 30 times greater than wild mammals? Our industrialized suffering is enormous.

saltesc@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 168d (1 reply)

Fuck we're weird.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 168d

The one thing you can rely on humans to be.

LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 168d (1 reply)

My humps my humps, my lovely camel lumps.

dan69@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 167d

I only clicked here just to make sure this comment got posted.

ApeNo1@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 168d

Cue the Black Eyed Peas …

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 168d

What are you doing? They're goosed, okay?!

rem26_art@fedia.io · 8 pts · 168d

You show up to the camel show and your camel's got a body kit, a lift kit, a wing, and 3 fake Nitrous bottles and assure the judges "yeah its stock"

HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 7 pts · 168d (1 reply)

Hump Plumper is a low key insult or props. The tone and context are key.

rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social · 3 pts · 168d

Hump plumping sounds like part of a job description for a fluffer!

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 168d

It's been a while since I have seen a post has fit this community so well.

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 167d

Beauty pageants are a scourge

mghackerlady@leminal.space · 5 pts · 167d

I-What?

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 168d

Guys will hump anything.

hemmetti@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 167d

Best hump plumbs! Hump hump!

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 167d

Jesus, those poor animals

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 167d

those camels could ski jump 10m further.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 3 pts · 168d

What is it about our species that we can’t just keep to ourselves? Was the “pageant” really necessary in the first place?

raman_klogius@ani.social · 2 pts · 168d

First the skiers and now this... And they don't even go that fast smh my head 😮‍💨

TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 167d

Finally, some news I can use.